I need to go back to Africa someday. Not just for all the right reasons, but also — and mainly — because I took this crappy picture (click to quadruplify): If you looked at it and thought “What? It’s really not sooooo bad,” I appreciate that, but make no mistake: it is. It’s crappy because …
Two years ago today Susan and I were in Rwanda outside Volcanoes National Park getting set to trek mountain gorillas. 19 JULY 2005 ‚ 0015 HOURS ‚ VIRUNGA LODGE, RWANDA I am sitting at the writing desk in our banda at the Virunga Lodge just after midnight, having slept some four hours. I am writing …
While I may not be the dimmest bulb shining, this photo below clearly illustrates I am definitively no where near being the brightest (click for slight enlargement): What the hell is that, you ask? Fair question. And the answer is that it is a three-minute exposure of the planet Venus — and no, it’s not …
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I can’t say anything that hasn’t already been said and better about the Eiffel’Tower other than regardless of all the pictures and footage you’ve seen of it nothing can quite prepare you for how totally massive and dominating it is once you get on under and up in it. Susan and I voted unanimously not …
So I haul out the my atlas just now to see a proper spelling of the Tyrrhenian Sea, where the image below of the sun rising over the western coast of Italy was snapped May 12 as we made our way to the port of Civitavecchia and then inland to Rome for the day, and …
You might recall my April post detailing the saga of the linen suit my mother purchased for me as an early birthday present. Well enough with the words, there’s some pixels of the outfit with the blue linen shirt from J. Peterman and the white Johnson & Murphy bucks with me cleaned up and inside …
I have Susan and her keen hotel-finding skills to thank for allowing us to discover the remarkable Shakespeare & Company. From our room overlooking the Notre Dame Cathedral, the venerable bookseller was tucked in not so much as a stone’s throw away from us, but we didn’t know anything about it until a walk post …